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Viramma

by Viramma

An intensely personal and moving self-portrait of a woman living at the very margins of Indian society, informed by a sense of profound social change.

2 posts
The Spectre of Comparisons

by Benedict Anderson

How nationalism has shaped the political and cultural landscape of Southeast Asia.

9 posts
The Myth of the Holy Cow

by D. N. Jha
A book the government of India demands be ritually burned.
2 posts
One China, Many Paths

Edited by Chaohua Wang
Chinese thinkers debate the future of their society and its place in the world.
9 posts

Gold Warriors

by Peggy Seagrave and Sterling Seagrave
Drawing on a vast range of original documents and interviews, Gold Warrior exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century.
1 post
Chechnya

by Tony Wood

A powerful argument for Chechen self-determination, and a definitive history of the region.

6 posts
Client State

by Gavan McCormack
McCormack traces Japan's institutional, political and military transformation through a history of its subservience to Washington Consensus policies.
2 posts
Down with Colonialism!

by Ho Chi Minh
Walden Bello on Ho Chi Minh’s inspirational anti-imperialism.
3 posts

Unfinished Nation

by Max Lane

Illuminating account of the turbulent history of twentieth-century Indonesia.

1 post
Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
15 posts
The Struggle for Tibet

by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya

Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet.

8 posts
Deep Mountain

by Ece Temelkuran
A personal and political journey to the heart of the Turkey-Armenia conflict, by Turkey’s most famous female journalist.
11 posts

The End of the Revolution

by Wang Hui

A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China’s “New Left.”

17 posts
Kashmir: The Case for Freedom

by Tariq Ali, Hilal Bhatt, et al.
Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation.
14 posts
F

by Mei Zhi

China's first literary dissident's Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution.

2 posts
The Future as Cultural Fact

by Arjun Appadurai

Acclaimed author presents a decade's research toward creating an anthropology of the future.

4 posts

Gandhi

by Kathryn Tidrick
A major reinterpretation of Gandhi’s life, politics, religion and nation
1 post
The Indian Ideology

by Perry Anderson

"Well sourced and artfully crafted, offering a comprehensive history of India’s ideology” – Jacobin

4 posts
The Setting Sun

by Bart Moore-Gilbert

A moving literary memoir about a son's quest for the truth behind his father's colonial past

8 posts
The Bullet and the Ballot Box

by Aditya Adhikari

Twenty-first-century revolution in one of the remotest places in the world

2 posts

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